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November 10, 2026 in Frontiers of American Reaction

“A New Founding Text for Our People”: White Christian Nationalism and Tolkien’s Mythopoeia

This past summer, on the anniversary of D-Day, U.S. “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth delivered the customary remarks at an American military cemetery in northern France. After describing the heroism…

November 5, 2026 in Culture, Culture Wars in Europe and Eurasia

Esotericism as a Political Resource: Traditionalism and the Global Far Right

On August 29, 2020, several hundred people broke through barriers outside the Reichstag in Berlin and attempted to enter the German parliament building. The scene encapsulated much of what made…

November 3, 2026 in Global Turn: Illiberalism and the Global South, Illiberal Forces at the Ballot

Lula Is Back: Illiberalism Can Be Defeated

A month ago, few people in Brasília would have predicted this. Flávio Bolsonaro came out of the first round ahead, with 47.03 percent of the valid votes to Lula's 45.16.…

October 30, 2026 in Agora

Emma Planinc on Palingenesis, Regenerative Politics, and the Limits of Liberalism

Emma Planinc, thank you for joining us and congratulations on your book Regenerative Politics. I want to start by asking you about the assumption at its core: that any normative…